Eight Die In Weekend Violence In City, Suburbs
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Eight men were killed in acts of violence throughout the city and suburbs over the weekend, with two of dead men victims of an especially violent weekend in near west suburban Maywood.
Early Saturday, a man was found stabbed to death in the street in the Southwest Side Little Village neighborhood.
About 2:10 a.m. Saturday Gumaro Chavez, 28, was found fatally stabbed on the 4200 block of West 26th Street, according to police News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro.
According to the medical examiner's office Chavez was found at 2608 S. Kedvale Ave.
An autopsy determined he died of multiple blunt force injuries and stab wounds from to an assault and his death was ruled a homicide, according to the medical examiner's office.
Late Saturday, a 23-year-old man was found dead with gunshot wounds to the head and chest in his backyard in the Little Village neighborhood.
About 11:40 p.m., police responded to a call of a person shot and found Marcus Winsley of the 2500 block of South Spaulding Avenue dead with gunshot wounds to the head and chest, police said.
A 24-year-old man was shot to death in the West Side Humboldt Park neighborhood early Sunday. Dwayne Wilks Jr. was standing in the street in the 4100 block of West Potomac Avenue when someone in a dark-colored vehicle drove by and fired shots about 2:45 a.m., police said. Wilks was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital at 3:19 a.m. according to the medical examiner's office. Police said he'd been shot in the chest and back.
About 7:50 a.m. Sunday, one man was killed and another critically wounded in a shooting on the Southwest Side.
The victims were on the street in the 5800 block of South Washtenaw Avenue, according to News Affairs Officer Robert Perez, when someone opened fire, killing a man in his 20s, and critically wounding a man in his late 20s.
The surviving victim was taken in critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, said Fire Media Affairs spokesman Quention Curtis. Perez said that man was shot in the chest and arm. Salvador Rodriguez, who is in his 20s, was pronounced dead on the scene at 10:20 a.m., according to the medical examiner's office.
The suspects were seen in a red minivan that fled the scene after the attack, the officer said.
Police on the Southwest Side are seeking a gunman who had a T-shirt wrapped around his face when he opened fire on a teen on a front porch, killing him Sunday morning. It happened about 11:25 a.m. in the 7200 block of South Artesian Avenue, according to News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli.
Marvis Brown, 17, was on a front porch when a shooter on foot approached and opened fire, police said. Brown, who lived just a block away, was dead at the scene.
The gunman, who has a slim build and was wearing baggy pants, fled on foot, Mirabelli said.
In the suburbs, a 35-year-old Dolton man died Sunday night after he was shot in south suburban Riverdale.
Robert Jones, 35, of Dolton, was pronounced dead at 11 p.m. at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, according to the medical examiner's office. Jones was shot in the 13100 block of South Halsted Street.
In Maywood, police are beefing up patrols on 19th Avenue after shootings there left two men dead and three others wounded this weekend.
The latest attack wounded a man and woman early at 1:46 a.m. Sunday in the rear of a building at 228 S. 19th Ave., Maywood Police Chief Tim Curry said.
"We learned that Taurean C. Wilson, 22, of Maywood, was parking his car in the back when an unknown person started firing shots at him,'' Curry said.
A 21-year-old woman was also inside the vehicle and Wilson shielded her with his body. But the woman, who Curry identified the woman as Raven Hendrix, of Maywood, was shot. Hendrix and Wilson were both recovering at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood as of Sunday afternoon.
"It's the third shooting in two days on 19th,'' Curry said.
The most recent murder claimed the life of 27-year-old Johntue Tate, who was shot 11:53 p.m. Saturday at 842 S. 19th Ave., according to Curry. That address is near Tate's home.
Tate was with a group who were watching a boxing match at a residence but he and another man, Donald Williams, went outside for a moment, Curry said.
"That's when the gunman came out of a corner of a building and started firing shots at them,'' Curry said.
Curry said the 20-year-old Williams was shot in both legs and remained hospitalized at Loyola Hospital, but Tate, of Maywood, was pronounced dead at Loyola at 12:32 a.m. Sunday, according to the medical examiner's office.
Another murder happened early Saturday on that same and claimed the life of a Chicago man, Vincent Frazier, Jr. About 3:45 a.m. someone shot Frazier, 25, in the common area of a building at 847 S. 19th Ave., according to Curry. Frazier was taken to Loyola Hospital, where he died.
"I don't have a motive for any of [the shootings],'' Curry said Sunday afternoon, but added investigators have not had a chance to talk to all the surviving victims.
"It may be coincidental or there may be something brewing,'' Curry said. "Twenty-four hours is not a lot of time to determine a pattern or a reason. We're trying to figure out what the motive is.''
But Curry said the community "will see a heightened police presence. Normally 19th is not a bad street."
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